Delchiante, let's just for a moment grant your premises above...Let's say that every poster in this thread might somehow agree with your historical purview that such as stated above was based upon...let's see...how did you frame the above...oh, yeah...based upon...
...that which is...
..."unbiblical"
..."false premises"
...of "anti-Christ"
OK, then...THEN let's ask -- and actually expect -- a candid response from you on these ensuing questions:
I take it, then, Delchiante, that you're wholly 100% consistent on your approaches to days devoted to false gods, right?
So...
...we in this thread also thereby assume...
...that you tear out most January --> June months of your calendars ['cause their names are derived from false gods]... [And you refuse to likewise use any cell phone or other digital calendar that does the same]
...right?
...and, of course, you never reference those names in your everyday talk -- unless of course, you're bringing up their pagan references...
...and, of course, you must have developed alternative names for everyday but Sunday...'cause Monday thru Saturday also are derived from pagan gods...
...as we know some poster accusing others of what you've mentioned above wouldn't dare be hypocritical himself on these matters...
...Right???
Here's a history pagan god lesson for you, Delchiante:
Thursday evolved from the Germanic pagan god, Thor? So, tell us, Delchiante unless you studiously avoid using the term Thursday -- or Thor's day -- why do you devote such a day to such a god?
I mean, don't you worship a jealous God? Is he not provoked by the way you honor and acknowledge and recognize the false god, Thor? (Or does He look the other way and doesn't care?)
I mean, it can't possibly be that you would hypocritically apply your argument to say, a day like Christmas yet recognize Thor's day, eh?
Yes? No? You recognize Thor's day, then? If so, my, my, my: How inconsistent, how two-faced, how Pharisaical, how 'teacher-of-the-law' of you, how hypocritical of you, then, Delchiante!
As for the rest of the days & months:
* Monday came from Germanic mythology where the "moon god" = Mani.
* Tuesday comes from Norse mythology re: its one-handed god, Tiw.
* Wednesday comes from the Germanic god Wodan.
* Friday comes from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Frige.
* Saturday comes from the Roman god Saturn (Anglo-Saxon rendering was Sæturnesdæg)
* January - Janus, Roman god of the beginning/doorway
* March - Mars, Roman god of war
* April - unknown, potentially Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love
* May - Maia, Greek goddess of fertility
* June - juno, Roman goddess of protection
So...tell us, Delchiante...how you've managed to be "biblical"...and base your current calendar on "true premises" and "pro-Christ" vs. "anti-Christ" to avoid offending or provoking our Jealous God by avoiding days and months and their names that honor and acknowledge these various pagan gods.
We're all interested in knowing what system you came up with steadfastly (and legalistically, if I might add) avoid such a thing.
And if you can't, may I suggest in the future that you put away such accusations...because you're as inconsistent, then, as all get-out!
Ezekiel 46:1 is our heavenly Father’s template and Torah and the prophets confirm it... and our Messiah’s life events detailed in the New Testament (birth, circumcision, dedication, baptism, death, burial, resurrection) all occurred on a new moon, sabbath or feast, following the same template-
and those cannot be found using the world’s calendar.. and that isn’t an accident...
New moon day-
Six work days
Seventh day Sabbath...(8th day of His month but seventh day of His week.
That is what I observe.. days are numbered, not named...
Today is the 30th day and last day of His second month.it is Gregorian Saturn’s day....
The new moon day is tomorrow and will be the first day of His third month.(and christians will actually stumble into His Sabbath for four weeks coming up-muslims and jews stumble into it sometimes too-it was a Friya’s day for four weeks in His second month)
His seventh day sabbath was yesterday, a goddess Friya s day in the pope’s calendar-I am guessing most were working that day...I wasn’t...
I observe His calendar, not the pope’s and it is all for His Glory! (And BTW, the next man made holy day of July 4th will be a work day for me)
And because I have been blessed by Him to see it and then take action and observe His timekeeping, I now know how counterfeit the world is..
And can see how scripture can proclaim that the devil deceives the whole world- and then see it occur...
And how even the very elect can be deceived (even to the point that reformers will defend the teachings and practices of what the first reformers called the ‘Antichrist’)
The first reformers had an opinion of the papacy... and I concur with that belief..
The world accepts the premises presented by the greco roman latin mother church - and her daughters... I do not...
And that is why there are so many denominations out there, each with its own version of ‘truth’..all birthed from counterfeit premises and each holding what they agree with their mother on- and jumping off the rest..
But you and they are free to do so.. I have been set free from conforming to this world...HalleluYah!
And if we agree on one thing, let it be that His Grace and Mercy is needed more than any of us know..I know how how enslaved I was to this world, even as a believer..
Two years ago I would not have even thought about the gregorian being anything other than the calendar that I used too..
Scripture as my guide and His Spirit as my teacher, I was able to see this timekeeping He gave us at creation and He taught Israel(they have abandoned)
and to see that timekeeping reflected in the major events in our Messiah’s life- hinted and confirmed in scripture that we read without even knowing it?
The pope’s calendar doesn’t do that...nor was it designed to.. But our Heavenly Father’s timekeeping does point to our Messiah..and His Spirit can lead anyone to that truth if one is willing to ask, seek and knock...
May He bless your journey out of this counterfeit world more than He has mine.